CLARIFICATION ORDER FOR THE ELIGIBILITY OF PROJECT ALLOWANCE AND HOUSE RENT ALLOWANCE (HRA)FOR EMPLOYEES APPOINTED ON WORKING ARRANGEMENT.GO(P)No.270/80/Fin dated 26/04/1980

CLARIFICATION ORDER FOR THE ELIGIBILITY OF PROJECT ALLOWANCE AND HOUSE RENT ALLOWANCE FOR EMPLOYEES APPOINTED ON WORKING ARRANGEMENT.

GO(P)270/80/FIN DT:26/04/1980

Government after considering the various aspects of the question are pleased to issue the following instructions in the matter:- 

(i) The Officers attached to offices where Project Allowance is not payable when posted for duty on working arrangement in offices where Project allowance is payable, will be eligible for Project Allowance .Similarly officers attached to offices where higher rate of House Rent Allowance Payable, when posted for duty on working arrangement in offices where only lower rate of House Rent allowance is payable will be eligible for the higher rate of House Rent Allowance.

(ii) The Officers attached to offices where Project allowance is payable, when posted on working arrangement in offices where no project allowance is payable will also be eligible for Project Allowance. The officers attached to offices where lower rate of House Rent Allowance payable when required to work on working arrangement in offices when higher rate of House Rent Allowance is payable, will be eligible for the higher rate of House Rent Allowance.  

(iii) The above concession will be available only for a period of three months of such working arrangement. After three months House Rent allowance/Project Allowance will be paid at the rate admissible to the employees working in the office/ establishment, in which the officer is posted on working arrangement. (iv) These orders will have effect from the date of orders.

EMPLOYEES IN WORKING ARRANGEMENT:HOW TO ARRANGE HRA IN SPARK :

  Working arrangement is a method of recruiting employees temporarily to other offices, if paucity of staffs is noted in such offices or based on employee request. For working arrangement cases, the parent office of the employee remains the same and the salary should be issued from the parent office itself. Most of the working arrangement cases, employees are eligible to receive HRA and CCA of working arrangement office. In such cases, parent office user has to update the working arrangement details through the „working arrangement‟ option available in SPARK. Earlier, the DDO from parent office has the privileges to update, edit or remove data working arrangement data any time through the parent office login. SPARK PMU has now updated the module, editing privileges are removed and the module modified as follows; If an employee is in working arrangement and eligible for HRA and CCA of working arrangement office, then the DDO has to relieve this employee through working arrangement module to the office where the employee got posted for working arrangement.

 Module for processing working arrangement procedure is as follows

 Employees in working arrangement module have 3 options; View Employees in Working Arrangement ,Relieve on Working Arrangement, Join from working Arrangement .

View Employees in Working Arrangement: Service MattersEmployees in Working arrangement View Employees in Working Arrangement This option enables the head of the institution/Drawing and Disbursing officer to view the employees who are in working arrangement from their office. Through this option user can check the details like the period of Working arrangement, working arrangement Department, office details, also see whether employee is eligible HRA and CC from this working arrangement office. 

Relieve on working Arrangement: Service Matters Employees in Working arrangementRelieve on Working Arrangement Employees can be relieved to working arrangement offices through the option; Select the employee, Enter Relieving details like Working arrangement Department, Office, Nature of work( On employee request/public interest), Date of relieving, also in user can opt „Yes‟ or „No‟ option for eligible for HRA and CCA fields, and confirm the details. On confirming the page working arrangement details get updated in SPARK DB and user can access employee details from the same office. 

Join on Working Arrangement: Service Matters-- > Employees in Working arrangement-- >Join on Working Arrangement On completing the working arrangement tenure user can terminate the working arrangement through the option; Select the employee, and then system will automatically display the updated relieving details of working arrangement in the respective fields. The user has to enter joining date to terminate working arrangement so to join the employee back to this office. On confirming the joining details, the system will update the termination date of working arrangement also in SPARK database